First Week of March 2021 … Brrrrrrrr …

doug on road trip.jpg
Vietnamese BoKok
hamburger mash and broccoli
chicken salad with blue cheese dressing
cream of broccoli and cheese topping
smoothie in blender

We were still in the deep freeze up until yesterday – nights of -18 C – but this  week will be springlike weather – today started at -10, it will be + 10C this afternoon, +12 tomorrow, the same the rest of the  week … until next Sunday – 0 C and snow ☹ We went on a road trip Saturday - our first in about three months - drove around Southwestern Ontario just to get out of the house. Doug the Dog  was pretty excited to go along - that's him in the SUV at left 🙂 I start my new job next week – so I will be spending a lot of time this week re-educating myself on some processes that I haven’t used in about twenty years 😊 Not a lot happening news wise – Trump still stirring up the pot down south; a massive PR meltdown with the Royal Family and the British Kardashians – uh, I mean Harry and Meghan. I wish they would just shut up and get on with enlarging their bank account. COVID went back last week to Orange (restricted) – people expected to go even lower this week – like back to yellow – but the numbers have started to spike up again, so we should take our time. The vaccine shipments have upped – I might be able to get my first shot by June – I could get it this month with the Astra Zeneca, but I’m hesitant about a vaccine with an expiry date on it 😊  Down south they have been starting  to open up restaurants and businesses to full capacity in a couple of states – like Texas and Florida – let’s see how that works out for them during March break ☹ Wayyy too soon ☹ Okay, on to food … still a mixture of odds and ends – Steak and Asparagus; Cream of Broccoli with toasted cheese muffins; Chicken Salad (gigantic, it was about a pound of food on the plate); Roast Pork with Roasted Brussel Sprouts and mashed spuds; and made a Vietnamese Bo’Kok yesterday – let’s just call it an Asian beef stew – it turned out to be pretty good, we will do it again. 😊  Experimented again with the Vitamix - made blueberry, mango, and kiwi smoothies yesterday. Kelly and I are still watching ‘Longmire’ – we are into Season 5 now – still a little hit and miss with huge holes in the plot, but only 18 episodes to go.  I  binge watched and finished ‘Perdida’ (Stolen Away, not the other ‘Perdida’) – it turned out to be excellent and rather unusual for Netflix – every loose end and subplot were completely explained by the end of the series. … With  the exception of the last scene – it  looks like there will have to be a Season 2 😊 I’m looking around for a replacement series to watch, but haven’t found one  yet ☹ So I watched golf instead all weekend. There was one PGA  event this past week – the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bayhill, Florida. One Canadian made the cut – Corey Connors who finished in 3rd!! He played great throughout, made a couple of minor blips on the last two holes, but had a payday of $641.7 K U.S. and moved up to 24th in the Fedex standings, congrats Corey!! Got to go … Have a great and safe week … we will see you in a bit!!